Going All In For Trump

THE NEW SPEAKER of the House is a die hard, total Trumper, an election denier and an insurrectionist who from the git go echoed Trump's false election lie, and refuses to renounce it and rehabilitate himeslf. On several occasions reporters have asked him about it as they jogged alongside him as he briskly strode through the Capitol, but he refuses to answer. Evidently, the Speaker will duck questions about his loyalty to Trump, past and present, from here on. Obviously, he doesn't want to talk about it, and you can't blame him. The longer politicians embrace Trump's 2020 election lie, the larger the albatross around their necks. Republican political leaders are just barely starting to mention the idea of forgetting about the twenty twenty election and all the fraud and theft accusations, and moving on. They are starting to figure out that this is not a winning issue, never has been, and is becoming increasingly uproductive to harp on it. But they are too late. The election denial movement refuses to die...The new House Speaker is trapped by his own election denying insurrectionist past, like Trump, and like all the Trump-cult memebers who cling to it. With the presidential election now only one year away, and Trump getting closer and closer to the Republican presidential nommination, Trump's trials for stealing secret documents and for inciting an insurrection to overthrow the American government, will directly collide with the election denier mythology, with Trump's run for the White House, and with Republican political aspirations for twenty twenty four. The Republican party will be faced with the daunting task of convincing tens of millions of undecided American voters that the best possible option for our next president is a man currently under indictment for no fewer than ninety one felonies, and saddled with several civil lawsuits from women claiming sexual misbehavior by Mr.Trump. Choosing a rock solid Trump cult member as the new House Speaker clearly reinforces what we already knew; that Donald Trump is still the undisputed leader of the Republican party, its icon and champion and spokesperson. And that he enjoys the total support of a large majority of its members. Up and down the ballot, the election of twenty twenty four will be about Donald Trump. I keep tellng people that I no longer need to criticize Trump, that each time he speaks in public he reveals himself, who he really is, much more clerly than I ever could. I keep telling people that, for the most part, pretty much whoever you are, if you are a decent person or even a halfway decent person, you are too good for Donald Trump, too good to support him, he is beneath you, beneath your decency and dignitiy to support him, for verily, he is not a decent person. And I remind people that there are many other conservative poiticians other than Trump seeking to be leaders, that Trump, on balance, isn't even a real conservative anyway, that unless you are filthy rich Trump has no interest in you and your interests. I can't think of a single instance in which someone has really listened to me, much less given my arguments consideration, or, heaven forbid, agreed with them. People are deeply entrenched. They dig in, and stay dug in. Nevertheless, I will continue to make these arguments, because I know that they are quite correct, and worth making. As Trump's various trials proceed next year, the facts will be presented, it will become increasingly, glaringly obvious that Trump is a serious, hard core criminal, even more obvious than it is already, and this blatant, glaring criminality will collide with and impede Republican campaigns, up and down the ballot. And the results will be precisely what they, and indeed the whole country, deserve.